quick question: highlighting a selection
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quick question: highlighting a selection

From: <anita1766@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed Dec 14 2005 - 21:08:38 CET



Hello all,


I'd like to be able to highlight an arbitrary user selected text,


inside a  document. Is this possible ?


I am thinking that I'd have to create an element of the selected string


and insert it into the dom, but am not sure how to do this, as the


insertion point could be inside any enclosing html


like so



<P>


Lorem ipsum dolor amet sit amet ipso facto. Lorem ipsum dolor amet sit


amet ipso facto. Lorem ipsum dolor amet sit amet ipso facto. USER


SELECTED TO BE HIGHLIGHTED TEXT sit amet ipso facto. Lorem ipsum dolor


amet sit amet ipso facto. Lorem ipsum dolor amet sit amet ipso facto.


Lorem ipsum dolor amet sit amet ipso.


</P>



The user selects USER SELECTED TO BE HIGHLIGHTED TEXT.



Thanks much


Received on Fri Dec 23 20:21:54 2005